Swansea try to keep hold of Roberto Martínez after Celtic make move

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Roberto Martínez, the highly regarded Swansea City manager, became the latest figure to be linked with the vacant Celtic job yesterday, with the Welsh club claiming that Celtic had made a direct approach for permission to speak to the Spaniard.

Huw Jenkins, the Swansea chairman, revealed that he had received a phone call from Peter Lawwell sometime over last weekend in which the Celtic chief executive said that he wished to speak to Martínez. The 35-year-old is viewed as the coming man of football managers in Britain, having had stunning success with Swansea in his 2 years at the club.